Bot Hunting Is All About the Vibes

Christopher Bouzy is trying to stay ahead of the bots. As the person behind Bot Sentinel, a popular bot-detection system, he and his team continuously update their machine learning models out of fear that they will get "stale." The task? Sorting 3.2 million tweets from suspended accounts into two folders: "Bot" or "Not." To detect bots, Bot Sentinel's models must first learn what problematic behavior is through exposure to data. And by providing the model with tweets in two distinct categories--bot or not a bot--Bouzy's model can calibrate itself and allegedly find the very essence of what, he thinks, makes a tweet problematic.